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EmilyAnne

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Tue Mar-17-09 10:09 AM
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31. Excellent points here. Especially....

"Today, in case you haven't noticed, we live in a society where educated people are openly mocked. Education is belittled. In fact, the current meme is that if you're educated, then you're an "elitist" who doesn't know what "real Americans" are all about. If you speak more than one language, you are some kind of a freak. If you speak in sentences longer than five words, you are "boring." You should be ignored and people should pay attention to poseurs like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. With that thinking in place among parents, what hope is there for education?"

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